Week of 5/16: Mask Advisory
This week we look at districts revising policies in the face of rising Covid 19 rates, put some numbers on planned ESSER III spending on Mental...
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Week of 5/9: Growth & Decline
This week we look at the Top 15 largest gains and declines across City and Suburban school districts nationwide, plus ESSER III spending and Early...
Dennis Roche
May 8, 2022
Week of 5/2: Fresh Air
This week we look at updated enrollment comparisons for 2021/22 versus 2020/21 and detail New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We also examine HVAC and air...
Dennis Roche
May 1, 2022
Week of 4/25: Post-Grad
This week we take a look at California's K-12 enrollment figures for 2021/22 versus 2020/21, as well as revised national comparisons that incorporate...
Dennis Roche
Apr 24, 2022
Week of 4/18: Charting ESSER Actuals
This week we look at current ESSER III spending reimbursement levels across the US, as well as examples of teacher retention programs.
Dennis Roche
Apr 17, 2022
Week of 4/11: Charting Enrollment
This week we take a deep dive into public school enrollment by charting trends according to "Locale Classification" as well as trends by grade, both...
Dennis Roche
Apr 10, 2022
Week of 4/4: Unwinding Disruption
For a sample dataset of ESSER III spending plans for 125 school districts with over $3 billion in ESSER III allocations, email dennis@burbio.com or...
Dennis Roche
Apr 3, 2022
Week of 3/28: Virtual Variety
This week we add more states to our overview of K-12 enrollment trends between the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years. Mask policy changes have...
Dennis Roche
Mar 27, 2022
Week of 3/21: K-12 Enrollment Trends
Over ninety percent of the Top 500 school districts are now mask-optional. This week we look at K-12 public school enrollments for 2021/22 versus...
Dennis Roche
Mar 20, 2022
Week of 3/14: Covid-Era In-Person Indexes
Over two-thirds of the Top 500 districts are now mask-optional. We take a look at national school opening indexes during the Covid-19 era, and...
Dennis Roche
Mar 13, 2022
Week of 3/7: Mental Health Spending
This week there was an acceleration of districts shifting to mask-optional policies as several states moved up their dates for allowing local...
Dennis Roche
Mar 6, 2022
Week of 2/28: Majority Mask-Optional
For the first time the number of Top 500 districts that are mask-optional exceeds the number that are mask-required, and we expect that trend to...
Dennis Roche
Feb 27, 2022